Family leave policies found unclear
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers unclear family-leave policies for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
- The News-Letter reported that Hopkins had no clear family-leave policy for these groups, leaving many struggling to balance work and family after having a child.
- The paper reported that policies can depend on funding: students supported by certain federal grants must receive maternity leave, while others face no University-wide guidelines.
- The article says that students without maternity leave may take unpaid leave and lose University health insurance during it.
- The reporter writes that graduate student Elizabeth Talbert combined a month of leave with a teaching-assistant job she could do from home.
- According to the article, administrators formed a Parental Concerns Working Group, held three focus groups and created a parent Listserv and a Family Resources website.